Yacapaca

Assessment

Authoring

Guide for Students

Introduction

YacapacaAims

Guide for Teachers

Aims

• Investigate the package ‘yacapaca’ and its effect on teaching and learning

• Introduce the various aspects of yacapaca

• Illustrate the students’ aspects

• Demonstrate the teachers’ facilities

• See an ePortfolio in action

Learning Outcomes

• Be aware of the facilities offered by yacapaca

• As a result of the demonstration, together with the accompanying tutor notes, teachers will be able to set up classes and create quizzes, surveys and ePortfolios.

Introduction to Yacapaca

• Online, free resource

• Allows the creation of courses which contain quizzes or surveys or eportfolios

• Allows courses to be accessed by any teacher

• Allows teachers to access any course

• Pupils can be easily enrolled and assigned a course

• User friendly

• Collaborative

Assessment

• Assessment for Learning

Check Box(Marked out of 4)

Assessment

• Assessment Types

Select the hotspotDrag ‘n Drop

ePortfolios

• emPowering Schools Strategy

• Cross curricular evidence

• Examples of best work

• Reviewed by teachers

• ePortfolio can be kept for time in school

• Backup of pupil’s work

www.yacapaca.com

ePortfolio – student’s viewwww.yacapaca.com

ePortfolio – student’s view

This student has been allocated 3 assignments.

Lets take a look at the ePortfolio.

ePortfolio – student’s view

Each section is regarded as a question.

You can use the Instructions to indicate what each section/question represents

ePortfolio – student’s view

This can be repeated for Maths, Geography, etc.

ePortfolio – student’s view

Students can change the ‘skin’ of their portfolio

ePortfolio – Keeping a backup

Each term or so, students can backup their current ePortfolio. This is saved as a zipped file.

ePortfolio as saved version.

Students now have a backup of their actual work

www.yacapaca.com/teacher

To create a new teacher account

Brief guide

Student’s forename and surname can be copied from an Excel spreadsheet directly.

Brief guide

This always reflects the current student details

These can be cut out and given to

each student

Assignments 1. Select the Category

2. Then the appropriate course

3. Preview a quiz

4. Click on the tick box

5. Click on the Submit button to allocate to your students

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The Markbook Markbook shows the current results for a particular course, e.g. Year 9 Science

The results can be downloaded into an Excel spreadsheet

The Task Results

Double click to see the detail

Task Example - ePortfolio

Listen Here!

Task Example - ePortfolio

Results - Quizzes

Analyse how well the class did for each question

Analyse how well the student did

in the assessment

Hover the mouse to see the question

Hover over the letter to see the actual answer

Results – Quiz Analysis

43% got this question right

This question/topic hasn’t been taught

very well!

Click here to discuss the assessment with

the class

Results – Quiz Analysis

Author

Currently one group set up.

Author

2 classes of questions:

•Quiz

•Multiple-choice survey